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Nigeria and Conflict Resolution in the Sub-regional West Africa: The Quest for a Regional Hegemon?

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  • Victor Ojakorotu
  • Adewole Ayodeji Adeleke

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The role of Nigeria in conflict resolution and peacekeeping efforts in Africa and other parts of the world cannot be overemphasised. The country has contributed more than 200,000 soldiers to peacekeeping missions around the world since independence. These efforts have earned it much respect in the council of nations and the recognition as being the ‘giant of Africa’. Also, Nigeria has been regarded as a ‘regional hegemon’ by some scholars because of its population size, comparatively large economic and human resources, and a bigger and well-equipped armed forces, equal in numerical strength to the armed forces of all the other countries in West Africa combined. The country played a very important role at spearheading the formation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Ceasefire Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) in the 1990s. It has contributed the highest fund in defraying the costs of ECOMOG deployment to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Cote d’Ivoire and Mali. This study analyses the hegemonic tendencies of Nigeria in the sub-region of West Africa. It argues that although the country is the most populous and the biggest economy in the sub-region but it does not possess the military, economic and the international support to function as a hegemonic power in West Africa.

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  • Victor Ojakorotu & Adewole Ayodeji Adeleke, 2018. "Nigeria and Conflict Resolution in the Sub-regional West Africa: The Quest for a Regional Hegemon?," Insight on Africa, , vol. 10(1), pages 37-53, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:inafri:v:10:y:2018:i:1:p:37-53
    DOI: 10.1177/0975087817735386
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